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Addressee: UNPFII
Paragraph Number: 107
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum decided to conduct four studies and to present them at its twenty-fifth session.
Area of Work: Future Work
Addressee: UNPFII
Paragraph Number: 106
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum decided to comprehensively assess its work to improve and strengthen the Forum’s effectiveness. It will be carried out at no cost by a volunteer group of current Forum members, who can invite former members from the seven sociocultural regions to make contributions. The Forum will report on this process at its twenty-fifth session.
Area of Work: Methods of Work, Future Work
Addressee: UN entities
Paragraph Number: 105
Session: 24 (2025)
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Artificial intelligence poses challenges and opportunities for Indigenous Peoples. The Permanent Forum recommends that United Nations entities involved in developing, governing and applying artificial intelligence and digital technologies ensure the meaningful inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in the entities’ processes for the benefit of Indigenous Peoples. The Forum offers assistance in identifying experts in artificial intelligence and in Indigenous Peoples’ rights.
Area of Work: Technology
Addressee: Mexico
Paragraph Number: 104
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the initiative of Mexico to hold an expert seminar in August 2025 to explore best practices for implementing the Declaration.
Area of Work: UNDRIP, Implementation
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 103
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum requests that Member States donate to the trust fund on Indigenous issues, which is managed by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The fund provides crucial support to the Forum and its follow-up on recommendations to fully implement the Declaration.
Area of Work: Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues
Addressee: ECOSOC; States
Paragraph Number: 102
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum recognizes the practical difficulties of organizing its sessions in New York due to barriers to participation faced by Indigenous Peoples. In line with Economic and Social Council resolution 2000/22, it will consider alternate venues.
Area of Work: Participation
Paragraph Number: 101
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum urges the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, ahead of its World Conservation Congress of 2025, to reaffirm Indigenous Peoples’ inherent rights to their lands and territories in accordance with the Declaration, including where these overlap with protected areas. The Forum rejects conservation models that undermine Indigenous Peoples’ governance and customary law.
Area of Work: Lands and Resources, UNDRIP
Addressee: States
Paragraph Number: 100
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in General Assembly resolution 78/327 and requests that States ensure their effective and meaningful participation throughout the preparatory processes leading up to the United Nations Water Conferences of 2026 and 2028. This includes facilitating the registration of Indigenous Peoples’ organizations and representatives, promoting full engagement in all process stages and adopting an approach aligned with the Declaration.
Area of Work: Participation
Paragraph Number: 99
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum supports the convening of a fourth seminar on treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and Indigenous Peoples, to be organized in conjunction with the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Area of Work: Cooperation
Addressee: Secretary General’s UN80 Initiative
Paragraph Number: 98
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum notes that Indigenous Peoples have long struggled to have their voices heard at the United Nations in New York, Geneva and other venues. The Secretary General’s UN80 Initiative, under which all United Nations activities and the current liquidity crisis are being reviewed, should not result in the diminished participation of Indigenous Peoples’ representatives at the United Nations; rather, it should serve as an opportunity to enhance the full and effective participation of Indigenous Peoples, including by finalizing the processes outlined in General Assembly resolution 71/321.
Area of Work: Participation, Enhanced Participation at the UN
Addressee: Secretary-General
Paragraph Number: 97
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum reiterates the recommendations of its eighteenth session and urges the Secretary-General to appoint a special envoy or special adviser, in consultation with Indigenous Peoples, to raise awareness of and promote the rights of Indigenous Peoples and to provide support in the follow-up to the outcome document of the World Conference.
Area of Work: World Conference on Indigenous Peoples
Addressee: UN entities; financial partners
Paragraph Number: 96
Session: 24 (2025)
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The Permanent Forum welcomes the request for the President of the General Assembly, through Assembly resolution 79/159, to convene a high-level panel to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2027. The meeting should be entitled “Second World Conference on Indigenous Peoples” and should serve to review the implementation of the outcome document of the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples of 2014 and recent developments pertaining to the rights of Indigenous Peoples. The enhanced participation of Indigenous Peoples in the event must be ensured. The Forum urges United Nations entities, financial partners and others to support Indigenous Peoples in organizing the preparatory meetings for the high-level event.
Area of Work: World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, Enhanced Participation at the UN
